A new textbook edited and written by researchers across Columbia gives the health community a primer on why, when and how climate information can and should be incorporated into health research, policy and practice.

Cook, a founding director of the Tree Ring Lab at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, explains how he uses tree rings to study past climate and advance understanding of drought.

Using sediment cores to trace the evolution of Jamaica Bay’s wetlands, a team of researchers found urbanization is weakening the shoreline and starving the marshes of vital mineral sediment, causing their gradual but dramatic erosion.

The plan reviews the current state of the Hudson River estuary and outlines ways to clean it up and reduce the impacts from development and climate change.

Julio Friedmann will lead a major new research initiative at Columbia to advance the public policy, financial and economic aspects of carbon management.